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My men have become women, but the women men.

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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Country Egypt World
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View

My men have become women, but the women men.

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